Help please, trying to do Yahoo Mail backup to Mac
Sorry for long post. Struggling to get backup done, running out of time and other things in life now getting really urgent . Got my Yahoo Mail headache again today. Please can someone advise me? Thunderbird 150.0.2, Mac OS 10.15 7 Catalina, 2018 Macbook Pro.
Not tech-savvy so finding it hard to find what settings to use in TB. Other people's post answers always seem to show dialog options I'm not seeing on my computer
AIMS: - Prevent folders from deleting in my backup, if I delete stuff on Yahoo. - Backup Yahoo emails to a stable, local copy on an external drive, so I can access old emails + attachments independently without it trying to reconnect / synch with Yahoo Mail - After backup, delete more mail to reduce YM storage from 39GB to less than 15. Feel reluctant to do this yet, as I already lost a big folder of work from my backup by trying to muddle my way through this. - Ideally would like to end up with a local copy I can access in Mail Backup X What I've tried; - Backup using Mail Backup X. Took 18 hours and some large folders were incomplete so I tried again after splitting them up in Yahoo Mail. I liked the software but something went wrong on the 2nd try and it now won't connect to Yahoo at all. Deleted and replaced 3rd party password multiple times. Server details are accepted, but then the icon just spins endlessly, hence trying Tbird instead. Deleted the MBX account which meant no error logs available (Yes. I should not have done that). - Tried both IMAP and POP backup using TBird - have added TBird ImportExport add-on but have no idea what settings to use, advice welcomed Questions/assumptions that may be wrong: - Was advised to use server export.imap.mail.yahoo.com, what's the reason for this and would it work? Can't remember if Yahoo allowed me to enter this setting. Sorry, hard to recall as I tried so many times. - POP only backs up 1 folder - Inbox. Really?? that's not a solution then - TBird's default is IMAP so surely it would always try and connect to synch, and so would any copied backup accounts? - if I get the ImportExport add-on settings right, can I *really* achieve the goal of a local offline backup I can trust, that I could keep on an external drive and access later via Mail Backup X?
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@-my-wits-end said
AIMS: - Prevent folders from deleting in my backup, if I delete stuff on Yahoo.
The only mail protocol that 8is not linked to the server copy is POP. POP mail account only download the contents of the inbox folder on yahoo. SO you will need to set up your account as POP and move all mail server side to the inbox folder.
If you set Thunderbird to delete the mail on the server as it is downloaded, once you inbox is initially cleared and downloaded you can do another folder of mail and it will not be quite the same mess to cleanup.
Note Thunderbird does not remove mail from the server by default. Yahoo customers complained loudly in the past because their server was "emptied" so the team gave in and changed the default, so you will need to change the default immediately after you set up the account.
just an additional point. Yahoo offers a very unreliable IMAP connection for folders/account with I think over 100,000 email so anything you trey that uses IMAP will probably be flaky because yahoo is the problem not the products you try.
Thanks very much for the reply.
Matt said
POP mail account only download the contents of the inbox folder on yahoo. SO you will need to set up your account as POP and move all mail server side to the inbox folder.
Is there a limit to how much can I can/should move into the Yahoo Inbox ready for download?
If there is a limit and it's not possible/advisable to put ALL my folders in there, can I do an incremental backup by moving the folders in and out of Inbox and completing the backup in stages? Would that create any problems on TB end?
Note Thunderbird does not remove mail from the server by default. Yahoo customers complained loudly in the past because their server was "emptied" so the team gave in and changed the default, so you will need to change the default immediately after you set up the account.
Would prefer NOT to have Yahoo delete the emails as I download them. I would prefer to do the deleting manually on Yahoo side after I've checked it's transferred okay. Want to avoid any unsolicited deletions, in both directions.
Could you tell me where the setting is to turn this default on and off?
If I delete things from Yahoo Mail I don't want them to disappear in Thunderbird. If I'm understanding correctly and the default's set properly this should not happen with POP (?)
Also I'd like to replace a missing 9GB folder that was deleted from Yahoo and then auto-deleted itself from my backup. A copy of it should be in the earlier IMAP profile I copied onto an external drive, I think. Can I import/copy that folder into my POP backup, and if I can, what is the correct way to do it?
Sorry to keep on asking, I really need to get this done !
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